He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZAMen govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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